Zach Brown
@zachthebrown.bsky.social
UW PhD Student, Department of Sociology. Interested in political radicalization, online social movements, and conspiracy theories.
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Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?
Seems like a good omen that the ballot drop box at Gas Works was crammed full
November 5, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Seems like a good omen that the ballot drop box at Gas Works was crammed full
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I haven't seen people here mention this letter from the mayor of Illinois' 2nd-largest city (Aurora, 40+% Latino)
to the Aurora Police
following egregious attacks by immigration in Aurora and related protests
So here it is!
to the Aurora Police
following egregious attacks by immigration in Aurora and related protests
So here it is!
October 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I haven't seen people here mention this letter from the mayor of Illinois' 2nd-largest city (Aurora, 40+% Latino)
to the Aurora Police
following egregious attacks by immigration in Aurora and related protests
So here it is!
to the Aurora Police
following egregious attacks by immigration in Aurora and related protests
So here it is!
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1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
October 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
Instant classic, too much stress
October 11, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Instant classic, too much stress
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Felt compelled
October 8, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Felt compelled
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It's feel like we're counting down to the first mass killing of US citizens by the US military.
September 6, 2025 at 6:17 PM
It's feel like we're counting down to the first mass killing of US citizens by the US military.
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WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you.
Apply by: 10 Oct
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Apply by: 10 Oct
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
September 1, 2025 at 1:59 PM
WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you.
Apply by: 10 Oct
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Apply by: 10 Oct
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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BREAKING: Metadata shows the FBI’s ‘raw’ Jeffrey Epstein prison video was likely modified.
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Metadata Shows the FBI’s ‘Raw’ Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Was Likely Modified
There is no evidence the footage was deceptively manipulated, but ambiguities around how the video was processed may further fuel conspiracy theories about Epstein's death.
www.wired.com
July 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
BREAKING: Metadata shows the FBI’s ‘raw’ Jeffrey Epstein prison video was likely modified.
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Seattle friends: In a few days, Kevin Gross and I will be having talking about how science works and the importance of teaching science as a social process.
The best part: It'll be at Burke Gilman brewing, and we won't be speaking all that long. So you can have beer—and talk back!
The best part: It'll be at Burke Gilman brewing, and we won't be speaking all that long. So you can have beer—and talk back!
Smarty Pints! The Science of Science
Join professors Carl Bergstrom (UW Biology) and Kevin Gross (NCSU Statistics) for a conversation on how science works.
Let us know you are coming and get involved in the summer fight for science: www.standupforscience.net/summer-fight... .
Join professors Carl Bergstrom (UW Biology) and Kevin Gross (NCSU Statistics) for a conversation on how science works.
Let us know you are coming and get involved in the summer fight for science: www.standupforscience.net/summer-fight... .
July 2, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Seattle friends: In a few days, Kevin Gross and I will be having talking about how science works and the importance of teaching science as a social process.
The best part: It'll be at Burke Gilman brewing, and we won't be speaking all that long. So you can have beer—and talk back!
The best part: It'll be at Burke Gilman brewing, and we won't be speaking all that long. So you can have beer—and talk back!
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Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows reut.rs/3ZvxVoY
Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows
Marines deployed to Los Angeles carried out the detention of a civilian on Friday, the U.S. military confirmed after being presented with Reuters images, in the first known detention by active-duty troops deployed there by President Donald Trump.
reut.rs
June 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows reut.rs/3ZvxVoY
Sooooo there's a lot going on this week (don't look at the new Vaccine Council commissioners), but new article I helped piece together came out!
Full article: Dynamic networks of negotiation for international climate change cooperation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Full article: Dynamic networks of negotiation for international climate change cooperation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Dynamic networks of negotiation for international climate change cooperation
The global response to climate change is negotiated through the UNFCCC’s Conferences of the Parties (COPs). Initially focused on reducing emissions from developed countries, the UNFCCC has shifted ...
www.tandfonline.com
June 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Sooooo there's a lot going on this week (don't look at the new Vaccine Council commissioners), but new article I helped piece together came out!
Full article: Dynamic networks of negotiation for international climate change cooperation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Full article: Dynamic networks of negotiation for international climate change cooperation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
That was a bit spicy from Newsom
June 11, 2025 at 1:45 AM
That was a bit spicy from Newsom
Hegseth threatens marines to LA
June 8, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Hegseth threatens marines to LA
Just gonna include this image for my diss outline under the section "Why Qanon still matters in 2025 and beyond"
just checking in on the president before bed… he just reposted some qanon brain rot about how joe biden was secretly executed in 2020 and replaced with a clone and/or robot 👍
June 1, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Just gonna include this image for my diss outline under the section "Why Qanon still matters in 2025 and beyond"
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just checking in on the president before bed… he just reposted some qanon brain rot about how joe biden was secretly executed in 2020 and replaced with a clone and/or robot 👍
June 1, 2025 at 2:22 AM
just checking in on the president before bed… he just reposted some qanon brain rot about how joe biden was secretly executed in 2020 and replaced with a clone and/or robot 👍
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I’ve heard from so many people about yesterday’s events at Cal Anderson Park in Capitol Hill. It’s clear this situation was seriously mishandled by Mayor Harrell’s administration, resulting in unnecessary arrests, injuries, and loss of trust in our city government. 🧵
Seattle Police make multiple arrests during counter-protest of fundamentalist church group’s rally in Cal Anderson Park — UPDATE
With reporting by Hannah Saunders Seattle Police moved on counter-protesters at a fundamentalist Christian group’s rally Saturday afternoon in Cal Anderson Park. Multiple arrests and injuries…
www.capitolhillseattle.com
May 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I’ve heard from so many people about yesterday’s events at Cal Anderson Park in Capitol Hill. It’s clear this situation was seriously mishandled by Mayor Harrell’s administration, resulting in unnecessary arrests, injuries, and loss of trust in our city government. 🧵
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I spoke with Science about scholars—myself included—self-censoring.
In my case, my team and I feared losing our NSF funding for Expert Voices Together (expertvoicestogether.org), a program, ironically, built to support researchers and journalists under attack.
www.science.org/content/arti...
In my case, my team and I feared losing our NSF funding for Expert Voices Together (expertvoicestogether.org), a program, ironically, built to support researchers and journalists under attack.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump’s ‘fear factor’: Scientists go silent as funding cuts escalate
Many worry about retribution. But for others, speaking out is worth the risk
www.science.org
May 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I spoke with Science about scholars—myself included—self-censoring.
In my case, my team and I feared losing our NSF funding for Expert Voices Together (expertvoicestogether.org), a program, ironically, built to support researchers and journalists under attack.
www.science.org/content/arti...
In my case, my team and I feared losing our NSF funding for Expert Voices Together (expertvoicestogether.org), a program, ironically, built to support researchers and journalists under attack.
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Who would Jesus send to an El Salvador torture prison? X user @christfollower1488 thinks he's know the answer.
April 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Who would Jesus send to an El Salvador torture prison? X user @christfollower1488 thinks he's know the answer.
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If the people do "rise up" it will be "no not like that
Schumer keeps talking about how the public needs to “rise up.” We live in a representative democracy, Chuck. We elected you with the understanding that you would be the first line of defense here, not the guy hanging out in the back waiting for the mob to storm the castle.
Schumer: "If he defies the Supreme Court, then we are in uncharted territory ... our entire democracy is at risk. I believe that if Donald Trump should defy the courts, the public will rise up. Democrats will fight it in every single way ... autocrats only succeed if the public lets them."
March 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
If the people do "rise up" it will be "no not like that
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📢 Announcing the launch of the Institute for Countering Digital Extremism (ICDE)!
📢 ICDE is a non-profit think tank and consulting group dedicated to combating violent extremism and advancing counterterrorism strategies in the digital age.
Learn more at www.counteringextremism.org
📢 ICDE is a non-profit think tank and consulting group dedicated to combating violent extremism and advancing counterterrorism strategies in the digital age.
Learn more at www.counteringextremism.org
The Institute for Countering Digital Extremism
ICDE is a non-profit think tank and consulting group dedicated to combating violent extremism and advancing counterterrorism strategies in the digital age.
www.counteringextremism.org
March 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
📢 Announcing the launch of the Institute for Countering Digital Extremism (ICDE)!
📢 ICDE is a non-profit think tank and consulting group dedicated to combating violent extremism and advancing counterterrorism strategies in the digital age.
Learn more at www.counteringextremism.org
📢 ICDE is a non-profit think tank and consulting group dedicated to combating violent extremism and advancing counterterrorism strategies in the digital age.
Learn more at www.counteringextremism.org
Uhhhhhhhhhh
SCOOP—Trump plans to issue an executive order designating fentanyl as a "Weapon of Mass Destruction," per copy of EO reviewed by me. Source at State speculates purpose is to designate cartels as terrorist orgs/justify military ops in Mexico/Canada.
Context/full text of draft only on The Handbasket:
Context/full text of draft only on The Handbasket:
Trump to declare fentanyl “Weapon of Mass Destruction," per draft EO
A copy of the draft was obtained and reviewed by The Handbasket.
www.thehandbasket.co
March 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Uhhhhhhhhhh
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Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too?
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My YES vote is *not* an endorsement of this deeply flawed CR.
My YES vote is 💯 about refusing to shut our government down.
I refuse to punish working families and plunge millions of Americans into chaos.
I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever vote to shut our government down.
My YES vote is 💯 about refusing to shut our government down.
I refuse to punish working families and plunge millions of Americans into chaos.
I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever vote to shut our government down.
March 14, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too?
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